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Council Decision (EU) 2019/53 of 20 December 2018 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention regarding compliance procedures

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Article 1.The position to be taken on the Union's behalf in...

  3. Article 2.This Decision shall enter into force on the date of...

  4. Article 3.This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of...

  5. Signature

    1. ANNEX

      1. Draft decision RC-9/[]: Procedures and mechanisms on compliance with the Rotterdam Convention Submission by …

      2. Appendix

        Annex VII: Procedures and mechanisms on compliance with the Rotterdam Convention

        1. (1) A compliance committee (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’) is...

        2. Members

          1. (2) The Committee shall consist of 15 members. Members shall be nominated...

          2. (3) Members shall have expertise and specific qualifications in the subject...

        3. Election of members

          1. (4) At its first meeting after the entry into force of...

          2. (5) If a member of the Committee resigns or is otherwise...

        4. Officers

          1. (6) The Committee shall elect its own Chair. A vice-chair and...

        5. Meetings

          1. (7) The Committee shall hold meetings as necessary and wherever possible...

          2. (8) Subject to paragraph 9 below, the meetings of the Committee...

          3. (9) Where a submission is made with regard to the possible...

          4. (10) The Committee shall make every effort to reach agreement on...

          5. (11) Each member of the Committee shall, in respect of any...

          6. (12) Submissions may be made in writing, through the Secretariat where...

          7. (13) The Committee in order to assess possible difficulties faced by...

          8. (14) The Secretariat shall forward submissions made under subparagraph 12 (a)...

          9. (15) The Secretariat shall, within two weeks of its receiving any...

          10. (16) Parties whose compliance is in question may present responses or...

          11. (17) Without prejudice to paragraph 16 above, additional information, provided by...

          12. (18) The Committee may decide not to proceed with submissions which...

        6. Facilitation

          1. (19) The Committee shall consider any submission made to it in...

        7. Possible measures to address compliance issues

          1. (20) If, after undertaking the facilitation procedure set forth in paragraph...

        8. Handling of information

          1. (21) The Committee may receive relevant information, through the Secretariat, from:...

          2. (22) For the purposes of examining systemic issues of general compliance...

          3. (23) Subject to Article 14 of the Convention, the Committee, any...

        9. Monitoring

          1. (24) The Compliance Committee should monitor the consequences of action taken...

        10. General compliance issues

          1. (25) The Compliance Committee may examine systemic issues of general compliance...

        11. Reports to the Conference of the Parties

          1. (26) The Committee shall submit a report to each ordinary meeting...

        12. Other subsidiary bodies

          1. (27) Where the activities of the Committee in respect of particular...

        13. Information sharing with other relevant multilateral environmental agreements

          1. (28) Where relevant, the Committee may solicit specific information, upon request...

        14. Review of the compliance mechanism

          1. (29) The Conference of the Parties shall regularly review the implementation...

        15. Relationship with settlement of disputes

          1. (30) These procedures and mechanisms shall be without prejudice to Article...

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